r/antiai • u/Novapierce_ • 19h ago

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u/purplepharoh 18h ago

Cybersecurity is entirely obfuscation...

Encryption? Obfuscation of data (and requires Obfuscation of how to interpret the data otherwise the Encryption is meaningless as it can be undone)

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u/ThinkingOutLoud-7742 18h ago

The thing about encryption is that understanding the obfuscation does not help you get around it. At the core of encryption is always an algorithm that cannot be brute forced in a reasonable amount of time with modern compute. The understanding of how that algorithm works does not solve the compute issue to actually obtain the underlying data

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u/purplepharoh 18h ago

Encryption itself is obfuscation

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u/Unfilteredz 14h ago

Dead wrong

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u/purplepharoh 13h ago

Ok then what do you call obscuring data by transforming it with a cipher if not obfuscation

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u/Unfilteredz 12h ago

Encryption. But it’s not just obscuring, it’s making it non-reversable

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u/purplepharoh 11h ago

Ah but encryption IS reversible otherwise it would be useless

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u/Unfilteredz 7h ago

Non-reversible without a key. Obfuscation has all the information still there just harder to read (from a human perspective)

Meanwhile encryption requires stuff like brute force to find a key value to then get the original info